With “Throw Down Your Hammer
and Sing” Nate Wooley (trumpet) Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello and electronics) and Jason Roebke (bass) create an alien landscape
of strange sounds that ebb and flow between sparse instrumentation and dense layers of sound. The trumpet
is pushed to its limits and cello and bass creak and moan as electronics interweave between the acoustic sounds.Improvisational, experimental, electronic, acoustic music at it’s best!

NATE WOOLEY

FRED LONBERG-HOLM

JASON ROEBKE

REVIEW:

FEATURING NATE WOOLEY ON TRUMPET, FRED LONBERG-HOLM ON CELLO &
ELECTRONICS AND JASON ROEBKE ON BASS. FOR MANY YEARS, IT WAS SAX PLAYERS, DRUMMERS AND GUITARISTS WHO WERE THE FOCAL POINT
OF ADVANCES IN JAZZ AND OTHER CREATIVE MUSICS. IN RECENT TIMES, THERE IS A DELUGE OF TRUMPET PLAYERS WHO ARE DEFINING A NEW
DAWN OF EXPRESSIVE DIVERSITY AND CREATIVITY. BESIDES LOCAL/INTERNATIONAL HEROES LIKE DAVE DOUGLAS, ROY CAMPBELL, RON HORTON,
RALPH ALESSI & DAVE BALLOU, THERE ARE A FEW CATS WHO CONSISTENTLY PUSH THE ENVELOPE LIKE HERB ROBERTSON, PETER EVANS,
THOMAS HEBERER (NOW LIVING HERE) AND THE RENAISSANCE MAN HIMSELF, NATE WOOLEY. CHECK OUT NATE'S RECENT RESUME FOR SOME EXTRAORDINARY
COLLABORATIONS: PAUL LYTTON, STEVE SWELL, TATSUYA NAKATANI, MARY HALVORSON, BRUCE EISENBEIL, STEVE GAUCI, DANIEL LEVIN &
AUDREY CHEN. WHOA!

FOR THIS FINE DISC, NATE CALLED UPON TWO
OF CHICAGO'S FINEST IMPROVISERS, CELLIST, FRED LONBERG-HOLM AND BASSIST JASON ROEBKE, BOTH DIVERSE COLLABORATORS. THIS DISC
FEATURES FIVE LONG PIECES. "TACONES ALTOS" SOUNDS LIKE AGITATED INSECTS AT PLAY, STRANGE YET VERY FOCUSED AND INTENSE.
BOTH FRED AND JASON DO A FINE JOB OF MAKING ODD SOUNDS ON THEIR STRINGS, BOWING, PLUCKING, BENDING AND RARELY PLAYING IN ANY
SORT OF CONVENTIONAL WAY. THIS MUSIC IS OFTEN CAREFUL AND CAUTIOUS, AS IF EACH SOUND IS SPECIAL AND WELL-SELECTED. AT TIMES,
IT IS HARD TO TELL THAT NATE IS PLAYING TRUMPET SINCE HE IS PLAYING SOUNDS THAT ARE INDESCRIBABLE AND UNTRUMPETLIKE. WHAT
AMAZES ME IS THAT THIS TRIO HAVE INVENTED THEIR OWN UNIQUE, ALIEN WORLD THAT IS CONSISTENTLY FASCINATING. IT DRAWS YOU INSIDE
AND PAINTS NEW SCENERY FOR YOUR MIND'S EYE.